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 CHAP. IV. BRINDABAN 157 peculiar to this temple ; but at Bhuvane^war, Halebid, and elsewhere, the whole surface is so overloaded with ornament as 351. View of Govind-deva Temple at Brindaban. (From a Photograph. to verge on bad taste. Here the accentuation is equal, but the surfaces are comparatively plain, and the effect dependent on the elegance of the profile of the mouldings rather than on the extent of the ornamentation. Without elaborate drawings it would be difficult to convey a correct impression of this ; but the view on next page (Woodcut No. 352) of a balcony, with its accompaniments, will suffice to illustrate what is meant. The figures might as well be omitted ; being carved where Moslim influences had long been strong, they are the weakest part of the design. There are other three temples at Brindaban, much in the same style and of the same period, but also much ruined. They were raised through the influence of the Gosains or disciples of Chaitanya and, consequently, all dedicated to Krishna under his various names as Madan Mohan, Gopinath, and Jugal Kishor. The erection of the last, represented on Plate XX VI I., is referred to 1627, in the reign of Jahangir. Its plan is given in Woodcut No. 353, but the outer porch has entirely disappeared, and what is left is only the ardha-